A newspaper company with such a weak management base can not afford to dispatch its own

In the first place, the custom of home delivery of newspapers has not taken root in France at all compared to Japan.
Although it is a national newspaper, its circulation is extremely small. Le Monde is also famous for its name, but the small newspaper company whose circulation is less than 300,000.
A newspaper company with such a weak management base can not afford to dispatch its own journalist to Japan, and the self-proclaimed correspondent is a locally hired Frenchman.
According to an interview with Mesmer in The Foreign Correspondents' Club of Japan newsletter "No. 1 Newspaper", Mesmer first joined the Navy. After studying for a journalist, he worked for a while in France and then suddenly came to Japan. The reason is "due in part, he says, to a woman", I guess he had been following a Japanese girl, or his job in France got stuck. so I think that he got permanent residence in an international marriage.
In addition to Le Monde, he also works as a narrator, a French lecturer, an interpreter, and an actor, which is far from being a proper full-time correspondent. Anyway, he will not cover it Himself, read the Japan Times, The Asahi Shimbun English version, and the fake news of other foreign journalists, and he will only make it a French article.